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June 7, 2005

Test Scanning Improvements

Academic Technology staff have revised and improved the Test Scanning Application on the Monroe Park and the MCV Campuses to specifically address the needs of faculty teaching large classes for importing grades into Blackboard and to address the use of the Student Number as well as the Social Security Number. The Test Scanning Application now provides the following options:

* Processes using the NEW Student ID number or SSN number (New)

* (CSV) Comma Delimited File for importing information into Blackboard (New)

Spreadsheet files (continued)

Printouts of Test Summaries (continued)

Automatically emails Test Summaries (continued).

Supports Standard Response Sheets, 5 Response Sheets, 10 Response Sheets, and 5/26 Response Sheets (continued)

For assistance contact the AT Helpdesk at 828-2227 or help@vcu.edu.

June 2, 2005

Recorded Content Management System Training

Sheila Chandler has recorded a Blackboard Content Management System Sneak Peek session that you may watch. It is about an hour long. You may forward or rewind through the parts that interest you if you cannot watch the entire presentation. In the bottom left corner of the screen you can replay or fast forward by clicking on the PowerPoint slides. Please let Sheila know if you find this type of asynchronous training session useful to you. sdchandl@vcu.edu

The link to the presentation is

http://video.vcu.edu:8880/content/Sheila'sTraining_001_2005-06-01_11-07-AM.htm